Blogs by Carl Trueman

At the weekend, I had the truly great pleasure of leading the congregation in prayer at the installation of a former student, Hunter Powell, as one of the pastors at Guilford Baptist Church just outside Washington, D.C.  The charge was... continue

Phil Johnson has a great post on the trend in evangelical exhibitionism here.  The last paragraphs are particularly pertinent:It's yet another sign of evangelicalism's growing conformity to worldly values and worldly behavior. The various evangelical coalitions and young Reformed movements... continue

From JIP's Collected Shorter Writings 4, pp. 84 and 87:"In some way there was in the Doctor's preaching thunder and lightning that no tape or transcription ever did or could capture -- power, I mean, to mediate a realisation of... continue

I notice that the Met Tab not only stocks no Trueman tosh but also lacks the `Je ne sais quoi' which a volume or two by Derek Thomas always provides: surely one of his many, many books on Job would... continue

Thanks to a well-wisher for bringing this article to my attention.  Well worth a read and I assume the follow-ups will be too.Multi-site represents yet another aspect of the undoing of the Reformation -- perhaps one of the most dangerous... continue

For a couple of reasons I have been revisiting some of the formative influences on my thinking as a Christian.  Writing an article on atonement, I have been re-reading essays by James I. Packer; and preparing to review the recent... continue

I wonder if there is a more neglected text in the New Testament in the current revival of interest in reformed theology than Eph. 5:12?  In the reaction to the taboos of old-style fundamentalism, there is surely a danger that... continue

A group of Italian Presbyterians and Baptists have united to see if they can sponsor a translation of Machen's great little book, Christianity and Liberalism, into Italian. To those who have never read the book, it is a succinct and... continue

The Aquila Report, source of all world knowledge for confessional Presbyterians, has published its list of the top fifty stories which it ran this year.  At the head of the list is an entry from Anthony Bradley.  It is nearly... continue

Has anything good come out of the Black Country?  Ok, it did provide us with Slade and some of the great heavy metal bands of the 70s, and Tolkien with the original for Mordor.  But has anything happened since then? ... continue